Quotes About Corruption

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived... (Bk2:3)

le luxe est l'effet des richesses, ou il les rend nécessaires; il corrompt à la fois le riche et le pauvre, l'un par la possession, l'autre par la convoitise; il vend la patrie à la mollesse, à la vanité; il ôte à l'Etat tous ses citoyens pour les asservir les uns aux autres, et tous à l'opinion.

One always wants what is good for oneself, but one does not always see it. The people is never corrupted, but it is often fooled, and only then does it appear to want what is bad.

When a man is set in authority over others, everything conspires to rob him of his sense of justice and reason.

Un día tomé el Mercurio de Francia, y andando y leyendo encontré este tema propuesto por la Academia de Dijon para el premio del siguiente año: El progreso de las ciencias y de las artes ¿ha contribuido a corromper o a purificar las costumbres? Así

Rien de vigoureux, rien de grand ne peut partir d'une plume toute vénale.

Luxury] corrupts both rich and poor, the rich by having it and the poor by wanting it.

sociedad en que el deber de una eterna fidelidad sólo sirve para originar adulterios y donde las mismas leyes del honor y la continencia extienden necesariamente la corrupción y multiplican los abortos.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.

Power corrupts and there is way too much corrupted power. Stand up and monitor the government that is supposed to work for us. That's what the Tea Party represents.

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

It's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way.

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.